Fermenting the fish

[seltsimees]

Originally published at Крадущийся песец, затаившийся енот. You can comment here or there.

What would you think of relatives holding a church funeral over a deceased atheist? Well, I believe it is a disrespect to their loved one’s memory, and I’ve witnessed it a couple of times. But this shows with eye-popping clarity that all death-related rituals are not for the dead or their memory. It is for the living, so that they may find some peace. And well, if there is no other way to calm down the grief, funeral is okay in my book. I wouldn’t protest it from my coffin, would I? Of course, I may put a special request in my will not to hold any church ceremony, but why would I bother? Go ahead, play your games, too bad I couldn’t stop those games while I was alive. I wouldn’t go haunting you.